how do you report an abusive user
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report an abusive user who abuses users by name calling and phishing
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
If someone is being abusive on your site you can block them from commenting by adding their username and email to your comments blacklist. That will cause their comments to be deleted automatically.
Unwanted Comments and Comment Spam
That is the only option we currently have available in this regard.
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will it work for all the blogs I read or just mine?
there are people who comment on blogs, they have no outside links and there seems to be no way to block or ignore them.
this is very annoying because if they don’t like your POV they stalk you and bully every time you post – if there’s a way to ignore them it inhibits people, me, from contributing and thus now I am less likely to subscribe to wordpress bloggers.
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Hello there, The ability to moderate comments is relevant only to sites you own. Comment moderation is available to every WordPressdotcom site owner.
If you participate in discussion on a site where someone is being abusive, then let the site owner know about the above guide to moderating comments.
Here’s an excellent post about dealing with Trolls: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/05/31/perennial-favorites-starve-a-troll/
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nice article, but I would rather just have the ability to not see certain posters by using an ignore feature. That seems to be possible on every platform I’m currently on save wordpress.
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Hello again, You are welcome to suggest it in our Ideas forum> https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/ideas#postform
One other thing you can do is if the abusive user is using a Gravatar account to post their comments, you can report them on Gravatar. You do need to be logged in to both Gravatar and WPcom at the same time. When you are, you’ll see a “report abuse” link at the bottom of the left side column on their Gravatar profile page.
Cheers!
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hmm Gravatar has no answer in their FAQ, their support says closed and all other options sends me back to wordpress
The user I wish to ignore seems to use a Gravatar icon, but there’s no information attached to the user name – no e-mail- no ignore feature and nothing and no where to report.
Can’t say I’ve had this problem on a wordpress blog before, but there seems to be a growing new breed of trolls and attention seekers emerging and if I can’t ignore or mute them then I’ll just go elsewhere.
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I would rather just have the ability to not see certain posters by using an ignore feature.
That is not possible on WordPress.com, no.
Keep in mind that if you’re commenting on a WordPress.com site, you’re not commenting on WordPress.com, unlike Facebook where if you comment on someone’s post you’re still commenting in a space owned and controlled by Facebook. A WordPress.com site belongs to the person who created it – we provide hosting but we neither own nor control the space where you make the comment. The site owner does.
If the owners of the sites where you comment don’t mind people being abusive in their comments sections, I’d suggest you reconsider whether those are the kinds of sites you want to be reading at all.
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good point
I guess I thought if the owner allowed Gravatar to manage posters they would have or offer such an option to users so the owner wouldn’t have to bother, cause what other reason would one even use Gravatar if not to control spam and trolls? -
A Gravatar account and a WordPress.com is the same thing, and Gravatar has never been a spam control tool. It’s an online profile allowing you to link a username, profile image and site URL to an email address, nothing more. Site owners on WordPress.com don’t allow or use Gravatar. If someone is logged into a WordPress.com account when commenting, they do so via their Gravatar profile. Site owners have no control over this.
If a site owner wishes to control who can comment the need to use our tools created for that purpose which I linked to in my first reply – the comment moderation list and the comment blacklist. Neither of these has anything to do with Gravatar.
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